Tsukuba Toastmasters Club (5814-76)
Minutes of #442 Meeting
Date: June 7, 2008, 14:00~16:30   Venue: Onogawa Public Hall

Attendance: TM Hashida, TM Tamura, TM Sakaki, TM Nariai, TM Kaneko
                  TM Negi, TM Mizutani, TM M.Suzuki, TM T.Aoyagi, TM Denda,
                  TM Ito, TM Murata, TM Ohno, TM Pang, TM Kondo, TM Fukumoto
                  TM Takahashi, TM Watanabe,TM S.Park, TM H.Park, TM
Nakamura,


Guest: Ms. Watanabe, Ms.Adachi, Mr.Yamada

Presiding Officer : President TM Hashida
Thought for the Day: TM Kaneko
Toastmaster of the day: TM Tamura
Timer: TM Murata
Ums &Ahs Counter: TM S.Park
Grammarian: TM Watanabe
Vote Counter: TM Ito
General Evaluator: TM Sakaki

Business Session: TM Hashida
* TM Negi explained All Japan Speech contest held in Hiroshima and suggested
that
   we had to make a clear plan for the next contest. Therefore, he asked
three
   members as committee making plan for the contest.
* VPE Watanabe explained about next meeting on June21: Show and Tell .

Special Feature : TM Watanabe

Table Topic Session : TM Nakamura " Reading"
 1. TM Mizutani... ........... 1'34"
 2. TM Denda.................... 2'18"
 3. TM Ito.......................... 2'05"
 4. TM T.Aoyagi............... 2'11"
 5. TM Fukumoto............ 1'18"
 6. TM Ohno.................... 2'26"
 7. TM M.Suzuki............. 2'04"

Prepared Speech Session
 1. TM Kondo  "Do your best and it must be first class"...........17'17"
                     The Professional Speaker#1 The Keynote Adress

 2. TM H Park  "A masterpiece"....................................9'15"
                      Entertain speech #2

 3. TM Pang    " Masters Swimming" ...........................6'06"
                       Project #7

Evaluation Section
 1. TM Negi for TM Kondo...................3'39"
 2. TM Nariai for TM H Park................2'25"
 3. TM Takahashi for TM Pang...........3'12"

Award
 Table Topic Session............TM Mizutani
 Evaluation Session...............TM Takahashi
 Speech Session....................TM Kondo

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Though for the Day                          TM Kaneko


 Astronaut Hoshide is about to complete his

mission on the international space station

before returning to earth.  His skills in

performing his work are excellent and are

very fascinating to the Japanese people to

see, especially those who live in Tsukuba,

which is Hoshide's home town.

The other day, the Hi-vision picture of the full

Earth from the moon, which was taken by

 JAXA and NHK, was shown on their web site.

The Earth appeared with a backdrop of the

 dark universe, looking very beautiful and

very fragile, like a shining jewel or a drop of

water.

We have repeatedly damaged the Earth in

 many ways in the name of progress so far.

 Reflecting on the miracle that we are here

on the Earth, It's high time we reconsidered

what is progress and what is not.

We can not continue to injure the Earth any

 more or we will all suffer for our folly.

I'd like to believe the wisdom of human-beings.

Let’s stop being selfish.

Let's work together to save the Earth for us

and our descendants.